SOLUTION: FIND THE DISTANCE FROM THE MIDPOINT OF ONE SIDE OF A SQUARE OF LENGTH 10 CM TO EITHER END OF THE OPPOSITE SIDE
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Question 461152: FIND THE DISTANCE FROM THE MIDPOINT OF ONE SIDE OF A SQUARE OF LENGTH 10 CM TO EITHER END OF THE OPPOSITE SIDE
Answer by robertb(5830) (Show Source): You can put this solution on YOUR website!
The conditions given would yield a right triangle with one leg being 5 cm long and the other leg 10 cm long.
The required distance is the length of the hypotenuse of this right triangle
cm.
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